More US runs for Mickel

Mickel said: "The plan is to do something over here next year, it's just a question of what. ASA has got some problems for next year, but I think it'll be running, so in the next couple of weeks we should be able to settle what we are going to do.

"The plan is to do Days of Thunder alongside something in the US, either ASA or something else, just like we had planned to do this season with the link-up with Travis Carter."

Mickel's 16th position at Atlanta came after rain fell during qualifying. That left them back in 34th.

Mickel said: "We made a lot of changes before the race, and after getting around six cars at the first corner we found ourselves hitting the rev limiter. If we had the right gears we had a top-10 car."